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See also:MONTPENSIER, See also:ANNE See also:MARIE See also:LOUISE D'See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
ORLEANS, DUCHESSE DE (1627-1693), See also:French memoir-writer, was See also:born at the Louvre on the 29th of May 1627. Her See also:father was Gaston of Orleans, " See also:Monsieur," the See also:brother of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIII. Her See also:mother was Marie de See also:Bourbon, heiress of the Montpensier See also:family. Being thus of the See also:blood-royal of See also:France on both sides, and heiress to immense See also:property, she appeared to be very See also:early destined to a splendid See also:marriage. It was perhaps the greatest misfortune of her See also:life that " la grande mademoiselle " was encouraged to look forward to the See also:throne of France as the result of a marriage with Louis XIV., who was, however, eleven years her junior. See also:Ill-See also:luck, or her own wilfulness, frustrated numerous plans for marrying her to persons of exalted station, including even See also:Charles II. of See also:England, then See also:prince of See also:Wales. She was just of See also:age when the See also:Fronde See also:broke out, and, attributing as she did her disappointments to See also:Mazarin, she sympathized with it not a little. In the new or second Fronde she not only took nominal command of one of the
armies on the princes' See also:side, but she literally and in. her own See also:person took Orleans by escalade. However, she had to See also:retreat to See also:Paris, where she practically commanded the See also:Bastille and the adjoining See also:part of the walls. On the 2nd of See also:July 1652, the See also:day of the See also:battle of the See also:Faubourg See also:Saint See also:Antoine, between the Frondeurs under See also:Conde and the royal troops under See also:Turenne, Mademoiselle saved Conde and his beaten troops by giving orders for the See also:gates under her See also:control to be opened and for the See also:cannon of the Bastille to See also:fire on the royalists. In the See also:heat of the emeute which followed she installed herself in the Hotel de Ville, and played the part of mediatrix between the opposed parties. Her See also:political importance lasted exactly six months, and did her little See also:good, for it created a lifelong See also:prejudice against her in the mind of her See also:cousin, Louis XIV. She was for some years in disgrace, and resided on her estates. It was not till 1657 that she reappeared at See also:court, but, though projects for marrying her were once more set on See also:foot, she was now past her first youth. She was nearly See also:forty, and had already corresponded seriously with Mme de See also:Motteville on the project of establishing a ladies' society " sans mariage et sans amour," when a See also:young Gascon See also:gentleman named Puyguilhem, afterwards celebrated as M. de See also:Lauzun (q.v.), attracted her See also:attention. It was some years before the affair came to a crisis, but at last, in 1670, Mademoiselle solemnly demanded the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's permission to marry Lauzun. Louis, who liked Lauzun, and who had been educated by Mazarin in the See also:idea that Mademoiselle ought not to be allowed to carry her vast estates and royal blood to anyone who was himself of the blood-royal, or even to any See also:foreign prince, gave his consent, but it was not immediately acted on, as the other members of the royal family prevailed with Louis to rescind his permission. Not See also:long afterwards Lauzun, for another cause, was imprisoned in Pignerol, and it was years before Mademoiselle was, able to buy his See also:release from the king by settling no small portion of her estates on Louis's bastards. The elderly lovers (for in 1681, when Lauzun was released, he was nearly fifty, and Mademoiselle was fifty-four) were then secretly married, if indeed they had not gone through the ceremony ten years previously. But Lauzun tyrannized over his wife, and it is said that on one occasion he addressed her thus, "Louise d'Orleans, See also:tire-moi See also:mes bottes," and that she at once and finally separated from him. She lived for some years afterwards, gave herself to religious duties, and finished her Memoires, which extend to within seven years of her See also:death (See also:April 9, 1693), and which she had begun when she was in disgrace See also:thirty years earlier. These Memoires (Amster-See also:dam, 1729) are of very considerable merit and See also:interest, though, or perhaps because, they are extremely egotistical and often extremely desultory. They are to be found in the See also:great collection of See also:Michaud and Poujoulat, and have been frequently edited apart. Her Eight Beatitudes has been edited by E. Rodocanachi as Un Ouvrage de piete inconnu (1908).
See the See also:series of studies on La Grande Mademoiselle, by " Arvede Barine " (1902, 1905). (G.
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